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Product Name: | Keychron C3 Pro QMK/VIA Custom Gaming Keyboard, Programmable 87 Keys Compact TKL Layout Gasket Mount, Red LED Backlight Wired Mechanical Keyboard with Red Switches for Mac/Windows/Linux |
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Unlike other "programmables," this is so much more than swapping CapsLock and Escape keys in some configurator software. If you have even a little proficiency in C++, you can make it into anything you can dream up. Google QMK firmware and have a look. You want to have an extra "shifted" layer for punctuation or a numpad or window control keys or programmable macro buttons or capsword (a capslock that automatically turns off at the next space)? No problem. You want a layer for home-row nav keys or mouse wheel up/down or F13-F24 extra function keys for macros... just add them to your layout file and flash. Want to switch from QWERTY to Dvorak to Colemak at the touch of a button... then this is a good entry-level model to try your firmware-building chops. You can have 32 layers, different tap-hold scenarios, multi-key chorded combos... it's a real (but fun) rabbit hole.
Don't get me wrong. There's definitely a learning curve. But most people don't want to drop $400 to see if they have the time and the C++ chops to build the required layout files. $30 is a totally different story. And you've got the same processor as the better keyboards that you can later step up and buy, if you're into it. Just my 2 cents on the value prop here...
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So weird that RGB has come all the way back around to being for people other than try-hard losers again
No idea what that means, but no lights on the keyboard sucks azz
I wouldn't do it. I use num pad for street fighter punches and kicks.
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Weird but mine has no L key, just two K keys. Took me a while before I figured it out. I rarely look at the keyboard while typing but still was making many mistakes in that area. Guess will need to send it back over that... and absence of the numpad.
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Unlike other "programmables," this is so much more than swapping CapsLock and Escape keys in some configurator software. If you have even a little proficiency in C++, you can make it into anything you can dream up. Google QMK firmware and have a look. You want to have an extra "shifted" layer for punctuation or a numpad or window control keys or programmable macro buttons or capsword (a capslock that automatically turns off at the next space)? No problem. You want a layer for home-row nav keys or mouse wheel up/down or F13-F24 extra function keys for macros... just add them to your layout file and flash. Want to switch from QWERTY to Dvorak to Colemak at the touch of a button... then this is a good entry-level model to try your firmware-building chops. You can have 32 layers, different tap-hold scenarios, multi-key chorded combos... it's a real (but fun) rabbit hole.
Don't get me wrong. There's definitely a learning curve. But most people don't want to drop $400 to see if they have the time and the C++ chops to build the required layout files. $30 is a totally different story. And you've got the same processor as the better keyboards that you can later step up and buy, if you're into it. Just my 2 cents on the value prop here...
All good. You got numbers on other keys.
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FWIW, if you're buying this with the intent of putting in the time to write custom firmware files in QMK, you can put a numpad for number entry literally anywhere you want it. For example, on my rig, when I hold down the pointer finger of my left hand (in home row) my right hand (also in its home row position) is *immediately* on a numpad. I enter whatever number and then release the left pointer finger -- all without having to shift the right hand to other keys. There's also a way to lock the numpad layer if entering a long list of numbers.
I have similar layers for home-row cursor navigation keys (a la vim), function keys arranged like a numpad, symbols like () <> {} arranged together and more accessibly, multimedia keys, multi-key macro sequences, home-row shift/alt/ctrl modifiers, etc., each layer activated by just holding a different key down. If interested read this: https://docs.qmk.fm/#/feature_layers